McReary crime family

The McReary crime family is an Irish Mob family based in New York City. Founded by Gerald McReary during the 1990s, the family once controlled Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan and most of Brooklyn, but the expansion of the American Mafia and the Russian Mafia led to the Irish losing power. The gang became weak during the early 2000s, with Gerald McReary falling in and out of prison and his cocaine-addicted brother Patrick McReary attempting to lead a gang of spendthrifts. The McReary family ultimately resorted to hiring enforcers of different ethnicities, including African-Americans and Hispanics, in addition to ethnic Irish gang members, and their gang worked with the Pegorino crime family to provide it with muscle in exchange for money. In 2008, after the death of Derrick McReary, Patrick left for California, leaving Gordon Sargent as the leader of the weakened gang.